Product Description

A reference guide to Bomber Command's operations during WWII.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #781833 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 800 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent reference work on RAF Bomber Command
An excellent reference for anybody interested in RAF Bomber Command during WW2. It provides short summaries and background details of all major raids carried out by Bomber Command from Britain, including statistical information on sorties flown, aircraft and aircrew casualties and short analysis of particularly significant operations. Invaluable to anybody interested in the topic as comprehensive reference. Similar to Norman Frank's later work on Fighter Command losses of WW2, except with more comment and analysis.

Essential for any student of the European Bomber Campaign.
This extensive and painstakingly researched reference is essential reading for any student of the bomber offensive undertaken by the Royal Air Force over Europe 1939-45. Chris Everitt deserves much credit for his meticulous attention to detail in the primary research fundamental to this book. His co-author, Martin Middlebrook, brings a perceptive insight into the analysis of the hard facts gleaned from the Public Records Office at Kew and his writing style is both economical yet eminently readable. The real value of this work can be found in numerous other studies of Bomber Command 1939-45 which directly quote from, or acknowledge in bibliographies, this seminal study.

Essential reference
Essential reference work on Bomber Command,and I thoroughly agree with the two previous reviewers, except to note that Frank's Fighter Command Losses has an entirely different approach and purpose, and should be compared rather to Chorley's monumental work on Bomber Command losses. Incidentally, one should note that all these works are published by Midland.